He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
SINCLAIR LEWISCure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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